Barb and I drove to the coast this weekend starting last Wednesday evening after work.
We elected to stay at the Inn at Cannon Beach which is a venue we have enjoyed before and will probably continue to visit on our trips out here. We set this up in response to no one being able to go to Sun Banks Resort during the same period of time. We cancelled the Sun Banks reservations and booked this long ago. We had no idea this would be the big bake in Portland. Temps there topping 100+. Temps here, oh, about 69-maybe 79. All I can say is that we picked the right weekend to get out of Dodge.

We've run the beach each morning about 0630, visited Lincoln City (too busy a place) to see the house we rented there for next July, and returned to our abode here for the night. Found a great eatery next door called the Warren Pub. The food was wonderful.

We're driving up to the Seaside area to buy Mom a fleece coat as neither of us brought them with us. The forecasts showed the coast to be hot, however, during part of the day yesterday and into the night, it was cold.

I hit a large object on the highway on the way North on 101. Two-lane so I could not get out of the way. My choice was hit the object, head-on into an oncoming mobile home or crash into a large Douglas Fir off to our right. I took the object under my right front tire (did not cut the tire) but found out after we got to the Inn that my gravel/mud flap on the right wheel well was split down the middle from the collision. Guess I'll be ordering online for a new set this week.

That's about it from the foggy coast. See you tomorrow. We'll be back for church. Dad